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This chapter discusses the issue of forensic credibility in medical examiners' roles as expert witnesses in court cases. It explains that medical examiners are usually asked to defend their autopsy findings publicly in an adversarial court setting where counterexperts will cast doubt on their findings. A forensic expert witness can establish his credibility when juries and judges accept a description of body trauma as evidence and an alleged mechanism of death as the way the deceased died.

This chapter discusses the issue of forensic credibility in medical examiners' roles as expert witnesses in court cases. It explains that medical examiners are usually asked to defend their autopsy findings publicly in an adversarial court setting where counterexperts will cast doubt on their findings. A forensic expert witness can establish his credibility when juries and judges accept a description of body trauma as evidence and an alleged mechanism of death as the way the deceased died.